INDEX 



ABBEY gardens, 292, and note. 

 Adams, keeper of Wolmer Forest, 28. 

 Adanson on the migration of swallows, 



138. 



jEstrus bovis, 413. 

 Alauda pratensis, 195. 

 Alresford, a shower of cobwebs at, 253. 

 Alton, 3, 4, 5, 19, 23, 389, 423, 437. 

 Ambresbury [Amesbury], 80. 

 American animals, 100. 

 Andover, 59. 

 Anecdote of a Danish duck killed at 



Trotton, 194. 



Animals destroy their young, 209, and note. 

 Animals fatter in cold weather, 178. 

 Animals, sociality of, 255, 256 note, 281. 

 Ann, Queen, at Wolmer Forest, 28. 

 "Annus Primus Historico-Naturalis," 



117, 1 20, and note, 122, 182, and 



note, 184, 191. 

 Ant, 438. 

 Ant, horse, 438. 

 Antiquities of Selborne, 38 note. 

 Aphides, or smother-fly, a shower of, 



343. 344 *'*', 437- 

 Arbours in Wolmer Forest, 33. 

 Aristotle quoted, 64. 

 Arum, or cuckoo-pint, 66. 

 Arun, 5. 

 Arundel, 5. 

 Ash-tree, 445. 

 Ash-tree, a rupture, 266. 

 Ash-tree, shrew, in the Plestor, 266, 



267 note. 



Asses used for ploughing, 250. 

 "Astley's," 29. 

 Auk, little, 140, 311. 

 Aurora borealis, 454. 

 Ayles Holt, or Alice Holt Forest, 36, 39, 



40, 42. 



"BAKER'S Chronicle," 319. 



Banks, Mr., 98. 



Barker, Mr. [brother-in-law to White], 



94- 



Barnabas, St., ancient custom on the 



feast of, 33. 

 Barnet, 388. 



Barometers, 366, and note, 451. 

 Barragons, 23. 



Barrington, Daines, 78, 118, 163 note. 

 Barrington's "Miscellanies," 337. 

 Bat, 51, and note, 94, 108, and note, 131, 



287. 



Bat, large, 108, 131. 

 Bat, tame, 51. 

 Beans sown by birds, 449. 

 Beans, horse, 449. 

 Bee-birds, 193. 

 Beech, 4, 445. 

 Bees, 263, 295, 449. 

 Bees, wild, 433. 

 Belon quoted, 193. 

 Bentley, 40, 42. 

 Bere Forest, 136. 



Besoms made by foresters 261, and note. 

 Bilberry, or cranberry, 306. 

 Bin's, or Bean's Pond, 35, 306, and note. 

 Binsted, 40, 42. 

 Binswood, 36. 



Birds' cessation of song, 143. 

 Birds, congregations of, 190, 201. 

 Birds destroyed by frost, 377. 

 Birds, dispersion of, 300, and note. 

 Birds, distinguishing marks of sex, 182. 

 Birds, exhibition of stuffed, 48. 

 Birds, fatter in moderate frost, 178. 

 Birds' flight, 309. 

 Birds, foreign, 1 1 8. 

 Birds found in Selborne, 146. 

 Birds, how they swim, 410. 



